Feb
03
2009
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Even as it seems that we, as a humanity, have become even more violent over the past few decades, there’s evidence that people are not violent by nature. This we discussed last week in the first part of this series, “The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflict.” The twentieth century has been the bloodiest of all, but we …
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Feb
03
2009
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the entire program
The story of the struggle for the fourteen-acre community garden on the corner of 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is now an Oscar nominated documentary. Directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy, “The Garden,” traces the fate of the South Central Garden when bulldozers razed the farming plots of immigrant families as the land was upheld …
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Feb
03
2009
“When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” — Aldo Leopold …
Feb
02
2009
“National isolation breeds national neurosis.” — Senator Hubert H. Humphrey …
Feb
02
2009
The last several years have been marked by a failure to pass federal immigration reform legislation and an alarming expansion of enforcement operations, including border militarization, raids, detentions and deportations – fomenting the false notion of immigrants as threats to national security. Yet over the last few years, particularly in 2006, we saw unprecedented numbers of communities pouring out to the streets demanding …
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